How much time to you waste in meetings?
If you're like most people and if you really kept track, you'd probably find that you waste about 8 hours a week in meetings that don't accomplish much. Add that up and it's about 48 days every year (assuming 4 weeks off a year).
In case your math is fuzzy, that's nearly ten 5-day business weeks or two and a half months.
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Do most people sit quietly at your campaign meetings while just a couple of people give reports and talk? Then, at the end of the meeting, do people leave without having participated much or at all.
That’ll leave you feeling uneasy.
You'll wonder (correctly) what they were thinking and what they were saying in the parking lot after the meeting.
You might have had the … [Read more...]

Whether you like it or not, some of the people on your campaign committees won't get their bodies to meetings. They'll participate by phone or Skype or some other program.
For some meetings, you will have some people around the table and some conferenced in. But you may actually elect to hold some of your meetings entirely virtually.
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A great consultant friend of mine recently described capital campaigns as "just one meeting after another."
And while that makes light of all of the other things that go into a capital campaign, it's a valid description! So you had better know how to organize and facilitate great meetings. I think it's an essential campaign skill!
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I’ll bet you’ve been to meetings that were a total waste of your time.
Unfortunately, lousy meetings are all too common. And the time suck is only one of the consequences. Poorly planned meetings also sap people’s energy and dampen their enthusiasm for your project.
But if your meetings are great, people will leave feeling energized and excited and committed to your … [Read more...]